Here are some questions that you may want to ask yourself
about your relationships. Answer these as true or false
by choosing the one that fits for you:
Do you find yourself attracting the same men or women
in your life, people who aren't supportive?
Do you and your mate always argue about the same issues
and never clear them up?
When an argument reaches its height, is divorce brought
up as a possible solution?
Is your time at work frustrating because you don't feel
listened to or supported in your relationships?
Does your company or organization's productivity suffer
as a result of office infighting and non-cooperative relationships?
Have members of your stepfamily refused to accept you
as part of the family?
When you visit your parents or siblings, does it feel
the same as it did when you were a child? Do the same
issues crop up now as in the past?
We all desire relationships that are loving, supportive
and fully empowering for us. But sometimes we carry around
the belief that we'll never have one, or that it just won't
work for us. Or we just resign ourselves to settling for
whatever we have, out of fear that it won't get any better,
or because we don't want to be alone.
From Upset to Satisfaction
The difficulties you may experience in the various relationships
in your life have more in common than you might think. In
fact they are intricately linked, because you
are the common denominator in all of your relationships.
When you begin to see your relationship with yourself as
the root causethe central moving forceof all
your other relationship dynamics, you are ready to take
conscious steps toward transformation.
Early childhood represents your primary relationships
education. Because of this, you will tend to duplicate the
beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of the dominant adults
in your childhood environment. Therefore, anything unresolved
in your relationship with your parents will come
up in your other relationshipsespecially your primary
relationships.
The most positive and powerful changes in your relationships
will happen when you clear out these unresolved issues and
establish a positive and loving "self-relationship."
Family Living System techniques will help take you from
no trust to intimacy, from arguing to effective communication,
from anger to joy, and from the brink of divorce to commitment.
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